Mysterious Nativity
concert
From the companionship between Les Métaboles and Russian composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the program Mysterious Nativity (record released in 2014 by Brillant Classics). Les Trois chants sacrés is his first choral work, mirroring the Trois hymnes sacrés by his compatriot Alfred Schnittke (1984).
The extremely hieratic aspect of the sonority of the choir in this program makes the viewer forget that, apart from Tchaikovsky's famous Hymn of the Cherubim, it is about works from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Mysterious Nativity illustrates the Metaboles' stance: to defend the choral repertoire of all eras and to promote contemporary masterpieces little known in France. The program thus puts the spotlight on works for choir by Georgy Sviridov, extremely well known in Russia but little sung in France, as well as pieces by the famous Estonian composer Arvo Pärt: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.
MYSTERIOUS NATIVITY
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski,
L’Hymne des Chérubins opus 41, n.6
Vytautas Miškinis,
O salutaris hostia
Arvo Pärt,
Magnificat
Nunc dimittis
Georgy Sviridov,
Mysterious Nativity
Dimitri Tchesnokov,
Trois chants sacrés, opus 43
- De profundis
- Miserere
- Pater Noster
Ave verum corpus opus 67
pour voix de femmes
Alfred Schnittke,
Trois hymnes sacrés
- Bogoroditse
- Gospodi,
- Ocenas
Georgy Sviridov, Sviatyï Boje
Les Métaboles (18 to 24 singers)
Denis Comtet, organ
Léo Warynski, direction
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Mysterious Nativity
Mysterious Nativity
Les Métaboles
Musical direction : Léo Warynski.
CD recorded in November 2013 at La Chapelle Saint-Louis (Paris)
Artistic direction and record : Jiri Heger
August
From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction
June
From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction
November
From the companionship that unites Les Métaboles with composer Dimitri Tchesnokov was born the Mysterious Nativity program, composed of works of works from the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly Russian. A program in the image of the Métaboles, which defends the choral repertoire.
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction
August
A bewitching program on the theme of the nativity, where meditation and spirituality inhabit Russian and Baltic composers in their sensitive approach to sacred texts. A moment of striking choral music.
October
Works for choir and organ by Pärt, Sviridov, Miskinis, Tchesnokov...
Les Métaboles
Organ
Léo Warynski, musical direction